Pilosocereus chrysacanthus
(F.A.C.Weber ex K.Schum.) Byles & G.D.Rowley (1957)
Etymology
🌵 Author(s) | Gordon RowleyRonald Byles |
🌵 Basionym | Pilocereus chrysacanthus (1897) |
🌵 Basionym author(s) | Karl Schumann | 🌵 Basionym published in | Gesamtbeschr. Kakt. 178 (1897) |
Greek chrysos ‘gold’ + Greek akantha ‘spine’. For the “golden yellow” (Schumann) spines. Compare Pilosocereus aureispinus, Pilosocereus chrysostele, Pilosocereus aurisetus and Pilosocereus aurisetus subsp. aurilanatus.
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2022 Sep 14). Pilosocereus chrysacanthus. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/pilosocereus-chrysacanthus